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a109de948b Remove option TREATIES
TREATIES has issues:

* Treaties can cover attack, assault, paradrop, board, lboard, fire,
  build (s|p|l|n) and enlist, but not bomb, launch, torpedo and
  enlistment centers.

* Usability is very poor.  While a treaty is in effect, every player
  action that violates a treaty condition triggers a prompt like this:

    This action is in contravention of  treaty #0 (with Curmudgeon)
    Do you wish to go ahead anyway? [yn]

  If you decline, the action is not executed.  If you accept, it is.
  In both cases, your decision is reported in the news.

  You cannot get rid of these prompts until the treaty expires.

* Virtually nobody uses them.

* Virtually unused code is buggy code.  There is at least one race
  condition: multifire() reads the firing sector, ship or land unit
  before the treaty prompt, and writes it back after, triggering a
  generation oops.  Any updates made by other threads while trechk()
  waits for input are wiped out, triggering a seqno mismatch oops.

* The treaty prompts could confuse smart clients that aren't prepared
  for them.  WinACE isn't, but is reported to work anyway at least
  common usage.  Ron Koenderink (the WinACE maintainer) suspects there
  could be a few situations where it will fail.

This feature is not earning its keep.  Remove it.  Drop command
treaty, consider treaty, offer treaty, xdump treaty, reject treaties.
Output of accept changed, obviously.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
2014-02-16 11:44:14 +01:00
ab913d73f9 tests: Rename final xdump files to final.xdump
The other test output files have fixed names, and having just one with
a name that varies with the test name complicates things with no gain.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
2014-01-19 10:09:16 +01:00
329da055dd nukes: New selector stockpile
Not interesting without way to make stockpiles.  Coming soon.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
2014-01-02 14:33:47 +01:00
948757cb0c Use int instead of signed char for pln_flags
Just for consistency with other flags members.  Rearrange struct
plnstr to avoid holes.
2013-05-08 06:57:54 +02:00
e51b3fb842 Use int instead of long for flags
As long as symbol_by_value(), show_capab() and togg() support only
int, flags need to fit into int.

Not a problem in practice, because no machine capable of running
Empire has int narrower than 32 bits, and 32 bits suffice.

Some flags members are long instead of int: struct lchrstr member
l_flags, struct natstr member nat_flags, struct mchrstr member m_flags
are long.  Waste of space on machines with long wider than int.
Change them to int.

Rearrange struct lchrstr and struct natstr to avoid holes.
2013-05-08 06:57:51 +02:00
4dd0720fc0 Add files test to make check 2013-05-08 06:55:18 +02:00